Atop a newly completed, 3.5-million-square-foot building that stands on 1,100 acres in the Arizona desert north of Phoenix is a giant logo of a microchip wafer and the letters TSMC. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s first Arizona chip fabrication plant, or fab, is making history because it’s the most advanced chip fab on U.S. soil, and … Read more
Dirty secret That’s where Germany comes in. The dirty little secret of European R&D spending is that half of it comes from Germany. And most of that investment flows into one sector: automotive. While that might seem obvious given the sector’s size (the German auto industry’s annual revenue is nearly half a trillion euros), it’s not where … Read more
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge who presided over the seditious conspiracy case against Oath Keepers members said Wednesday that it would be “frightening” if the anti-government group’s founder, Stewart Rhodes, is pardoned for orchestrating a violent plot to keep Donald Trump in the White House after he lost the 2020 presidential … Read more
Jared Isaacman, Mission Commander, steps out of the manned Polaris Dawn mission’s “Dragon” capsule after it splashed down off the coast of Dry Tortugas, Florida, after completing the first human spaceflight mission by non-government astronauts of the Polaris Program. – | Afp | Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run NASA, Jared Isaacman, is … Read more
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has confirmed that he and Tesla billionaire Elon Musk are engaged in “ongoing negotiations” about financial support for the party. Farage had previously downplayed reports in the Sunday Times that Musk would make a staggering £80 million ($100 million) to Reform. Musk “All In” For Trump Earlier this year Musk … Read more
A private investment fund created last year by billionaire Zhang Yiming – founder of TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance – has received a licence from Hong Kong’s securities regulator to conduct asset management, paving the way for the young entrepreneur to use Hong Kong as a base to manage his wealth. The Securities and Futures … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump announced he will nominate Herschel Walker, the former football player whose 2022 Senate run was plagued by controversy, to serve as U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas. “Herschel has spent decades serving as an Ambassador to our Nation’s youth, our men and women in the Military, and athletes at home and abroad,” Trump … Read more
Saudi Arabia will not normalize ties with Israel “unless it ends the war in Gaza,” Saudi officials have informed associates of US President-elect Donald Trump, a person with knowledge about the matter told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday evening. In recent weeks, Saudi officials, headed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, met people close … Read more
“What’s in Scott is a deep respect for everyday people, a desire to not just agitate, but to educate the person he’s talking to about a different point of view,” Jones adds of his colleague. He also commended Jennings for continuing to show support for Israeli hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza by donning … Read more
Late last month, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, a.k.a. the leaders of Donald Trump’s newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, wrote an op-ed proposing that the federal government fire any federal employees who won’t work in the office five days a week, suggesting this as a way to help slash $2 trillion from the budget. … Read more
